TY  - JOUR
EP  - 381
SN  - 18684238
PB  - Springer New York LLC
N1  - cited By 6; Conference of 12th INNS EANN-SIG International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks, EANN 2011 ; Conference Date: 15 September 2011 Through 18 September 2011; Conference Code:87082
SP  - 372
TI  - An intelligent approach to detect probe request attacks in IEEE 802.11 networks
AV  - none
UR  - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-80055032476&doi=10.1007%2f978-3-642-23957-1_42&partnerID=40&md5=e06d47a2d6026a6fadf6513fcf4d4caa
JF  - IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology
A1  - Ratnayake, D.N.
A1  - Kazemian, H.B.
A1  - Yusuf, S.A.
A1  - Abdullah, A.B.
VL  - 363 AI
Y1  - 2011///
N2  - In Wireless Local Area Networks (WLAN), beacon, probe request and response messages are unprotected, so the information is visible to sniffers. Probe requests can be sent by anyone with a legitimate Media Access Control (MAC) address, as association to the network is not required at this stage. Legitimate MAC addresses can be easily spoofed to bypass Access Point (AP) access lists. Attackers take advantage of these vulnerabilities and send a flood of probe request frames which can lead to a Denial-of-Service (DoS) to legitimate stations. This paper discusses an intelligent approach to recognise probe request attacks in WLANs. The research investigates and analyses WLAN traffic captured on a home wireless network, and uses supervised feedforward neural network with 4 input neurons, 2 hidden layers and an output neuron to determine the results. The computer simulation results demonstrate that this approach improves detection of MAC spoofing and probe request attacks considerably. © 2011 International Federation for Information Processing.
IS  - PART 1
KW  - Denial-of-service attack; Feedforward neural networks; Floods; Home networks; Medium access control; Probes; Radio; Wireless local area networks (WLAN); Access control; Neural networks; Standards
KW  -  Denial of Service; Hidden layers; IEEE 802.11 networks; IEEE 802.11s; Input neurons; Media access control; Output neurons; Probe request flooding attacks; Access points
KW  -  IEEE Standards; Local area networks
ID  - scholars2335
CY  - Corfu
ER  -